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- Drumbeats from Mescalero: Conversations with Apache Elders, Warriors, and Horseholders
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- 2011
- Published by: Texas A&M University Press
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Wisdom from the past . . . hope for the future . . .
In 1945 the hot wind from a nuclear explosion at Trinity Site on a nearby missile range raged across the Mescalero Apache Reservation in south-central New Mexico, killing hundreds of head of livestock and causing sickness among the descendants of some of the most famous Apache heroes in American history. In many ways, this disaster typified what these Apaches had come to expect from the federal government: attention was often accompanied by undesired results.
Four thousand Apaches of the Mescalero, Chiricahua, and Lipan bands now live on this reservation. In twelve remarkable oral history interviews, three generations of Mescalero, Chiricahua, and Lipan Apaches reflect on the trials of the past, the challenges of the present, and hope for the future. A common thread among all of the interviewees is a collective memory of their people as formidable enemies of the U.S. government in the not-too-distant past.
Author and ethnographer H. Henrietta Stockel has structured these interviews to encompass three groups of Mescalero Apache society: the elders, the “warriors” (middle-aged), and the “horseholders,” or young apprentices.
Table of Contents
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- AUTHOR’S NOTE
- pp. xiii-xxii
- INTRODUCTION
- pp. 1-3
- THE SPEAKERS
- pp. 5-18
- THE ELDERS
- TESTIMONY OF KATHLEEN KANSEAH
- pp. 21-27
- TESTIMONY OF EDWARD LITTLE
- pp. 28-49
- TESTIMONY OF CLAUDINE SAENZ
- pp. 50-61
- THE WARRIORS
- TESTIMONY OF JOEY PADILLA
- pp. 80-93
- TESTIMONY OF DEPREE SHADOWWALKER
- pp. 94-105
- TESTIMONY OFALFRED LAPAZ
- pp. 106-115
- TESTIMONY OF DEBI MARTINEZ
- pp. 116-135
- TESTIMONY OF LARRY SHAY
- pp. 136-144
- THE HORSEHOLDERS
- TESTIMONY OF ELIZA YUZOS
- pp. 147-153
- TESTIMONY OF DAN KANSEAH JR.
- pp. 154-161
- TESTIMONY OF KIANA MANGAS
- pp. 162-195
- REFLECTIONS
- pp. 175-176
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 183-184
Additional Information
ISBN
9781603444835
Related ISBN(s)
9781603442305
MARC Record
OCLC
726828979
Pages
176
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-11
Language
English
Open Access
No